post

Senior Research Fellow in Tourism, Culture and Development

responsibilities

Convenes the departmental seminar series in Tourism, Culture and Development

brief biography

Julie Scott is an anthropologist and lived in Cyprus for seven years, carrying out her doctoral fieldwork on the cultural politics of tourism. Much of her research is concerned with gender, ethnic and national identities and the marking of community boundaries through the use of tourist space and the interpretation of heritage, memory and landscape.

She has published on casino tourism, and female entrepreneurship and employment in the tourism industry. She was director of Mediterranean Voices, which used the process of creating an intangible heritage database to explore the lived reality of Mediterranean urban space in 13 cities.

key teaching areas

Julie teaches postgraduate modules in research methods, and theory and practice in tourism and development. She leads the international field trip for MA students in tourism and development. Current PhD topics she is supervising include geopark networks; intangible heritage & poverty alleviation; memory and affect amongst senior tourists in Malta.

research interests

Julie's recent and on-going research projects link intangible heritage with tourism, income generation and civil society in India, Iran, and the Mediterranean. She is interested in the material practices of place-making. She is also working on an ethnographic research project exploring the dynamics of gambling spaces.

publications

• Scott J and Selwyn, T (eds)(2010) Thinking Through Tourism Oxford: Berg
• Scott, J (2010) "Building Stories " Intangible Heritage in a Former Royal Capital in Turgeon, L (ed.) Capitales et Patrimoine au XXIe Siecle, Quebec: Universite Lavalle
• Scott, J (2010) "Escaping the polarizing gaze - gambling spaces in Cyprus" Cyprus Review Special Issue: Cyprus Independence 50th Anniversary
• Scott J (2005) 'Imagining the Mediterranean' Journal of Mediterranean Studies 15(2):219-243 (Special Mediterranean Voices Issue)


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professional practice and consultancy

• Capacity building and training for the European Union's Euromed Heritage 4 programme
• UNESCO Strategic Policy Evaluation (Intangible Cultural Heritage)
• Consultant, tourism and development strategies in Cyprus; Montenegro

memberships

• Honourary Treasurer, Royal Anthropological Institute
• Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK & Commonwealth
• International Advisory Board of The Cyprus Review (University of Nicosia)
• Consulting editor for ASAonline (journal of the ASA);
• Editorial Board for London Journal of Tourism, Sport and the Creative Industries